"No."
"If even America has no way to stop it, what could we possibly do?"
"I asked the experts, but mine were pessimistic. They told me there was no way to deal with this disaster. All we can do is leave our fate to chance."
"..."
The leaders spoke one after another. They hated to admit it, but if even America, with its advanced technology, had no answer to this natural disaster, what could the rest of them do? Besides, they had consulted their experts as soon as they received the analysis reports. Not one expert could offer a way to confront the greatest natural disaster humanity had ever faced.
"Do any of you have a solution? If you do, please tell me. Satsuma Island Nation is willing to place itself entirely under your protection."
Seeing that no one had a solution, Tuilaepa, the president of Satsuma Island Nation, steeled himself and made his offer.
An island nation in the southern Pacific Ocean, Satsuma Island Nation consisted of the two main islands, Upolu and Savai'i, and eight smaller islands nearby: Manono, Apolima, Nu'utele, Nu'ulua, Namua, Fanuatapu, Nu'usaife'e, and Nu'ulopa. Its territory covered 2,934 square kilometers, only one ten-thousandth the size of a prefecture-level city in Huaxia.
As an island nation, it had long suffered from rising sea levels caused by global warming. Years earlier, experts had warned that Satsuma Island Nation, with an average elevation of just 87 centimeters, would be swallowed by the sea within a century.
Many in Satsuma Island Nation believed that warning. Over the past few years, the sea had encroached several centimeters into their land, leaving the nation's more than twenty thousand citizens deeply worried.
They had once asked their president to negotiate with Germania, their former colonial ruler, about rejoining it. If Germania had